Two AI-native ledgers, one question: does the system stop at the finance team, or carry on across the business?
Short answer: Campfire and Aurakore share the AI-native premise: a general ledger rebuilt around machine learning. Aurakore extends it across CRM, legal and HR and adds native tax provision, audit workspace, leases, fixed assets and planning, where Campfire is emerging or absent; Campfire leads on live bank feeds and AP capture.
| Capability | Aurakore | Campfire |
|---|---|---|
| AI-native ledger architecture | Yes: built AI-first | Yes: built AI-first |
| Unified ERP breadth (CRM + finance + legal + HR) | Yes: one platform, one assistant | Partial |
| Tax provision (ASC 740) | Yes: native | No: not offered |
| Audit / assurance workspace | Yes: native workspace | No: not offered |
| Sales tax & e-invoicing compliance | US core today | No: not offered |
| Lease accounting (ASC 842) | Yes: native | Emerging |
| Fixed assets & depreciation | Yes: native | Emerging |
| Budgeting & variance analysis | Yes: native | Emerging |
| Cash forecasting | Yes: native | Emerging |
| Board / management reporting pack | Yes: native | Emerging |
| Governed agents (approve before post, full audit trail) | Yes: core to the design | Emerging |
| Revenue recognition (ASC 606) | Native, with the standard cited | Native |
| Multi-entity consolidation & eliminations | Native, with FX translation | Native |
| AP capture, coding & approval | No: partial capture | Yes: native |
| Live bank feeds | No: statement import only | Yes: live feeds |
Comparison reflects Aurakore's positioning and Campfire's published 2026 capabilities; a point-in-time reading. Campfire is a trademark of its respective owner; Aurakore is not affiliated with Campfire.
Campfire ships the operational plumbing Aurakore is still wiring: live bank feeds and a working AP capture and coding agent, backed by a real customer base. For a finance team whose daily reality is bank reconciliation and bill processing, that is the part that has to work on day one.
The compliance and planning tail, and everything past finance. The tax provision, audit workspace and sales-tax handling are native in Aurakore and absent in Campfire; leases, fixed assets, budgeting, cash forecasting and the board pack are native rather than emerging. And the same assistant reasons across CRM deals, legal entities and HR, not the finance ledger alone.
Bank statement import is live; a live aggregator feed is not yet wired. Receipt capture is partial and two- and three-way PO matching is on the roadmap. Close runs as an approval workflow rather than an autonomous close agent, and tax localisation covers the US core rather than the 100+ jurisdictions a global suite reaches. Campfire ships live bank feeds and AP capture today. The capabilities above are built and available today, but Aurakore's finance module is newly shipped, so it has not been through the years of production hardening behind an incumbent's equivalent mark.
A native assurance workspace and an audit trail on every agent action.
ASC 740 runs on the ledger rather than going out to a separate tool.
Budgets, variance, cash forecasting and the board pack from live data.
CRM, legal and HR on the same record as finance.
Aurakore: the same AI-native ledger approach, extended across CRM, legal and HR, with native tax provision, audit workspace, lease accounting, fixed assets and planning.
Campfire is a finance-focused AI-native ERP. Aurakore spans the business on one record and covers the compliance tail that Campfire does not offer: ASC 740, audit workspace, sales tax. Campfire leads on live bank feeds and AP capture.
No. Campfire runs at customer scale with live bank feeds and a shipped AP agent. Aurakore's module is newly shipped, with statement import rather than live feeds and partial AP capture.